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Opening the application was always a fresh arrival at the beginning of the library, whatever you had been doing when you closed it. What is written down is the view, the scope, the rating filter and the photograph on screen -- the open one in develop, the first visible one in the grid. Not just a scroll position: a position without the filter that produced it names a row of a list that no longer exists. Restoring them has an order for the same reason -- scope, then filter, then position, then the view -- because each step changes what an ordinal *means*. Addressed by remote path and collection UUID, never by an ordinal or a row id. `images.id` and `collections.id` are local to one catalog, and a grid ordinal is local to one ordering; a record naming either would land somewhere arbitrary on a second device and after any filter change on this one. Where the ordinal is needed, `library::ordinal_of_path` computes it through the grid's own `ORDER BY`, taken verbatim by a window function rather than spelled a second time as an inequality -- which is the mistake `grid_order_for` already warns about, and which a manually ordered collection would make unreadable. Every failure degrades rather than reports. A collection this device has not merged leaves the scope at the whole library; a photograph that has since been deleted falls back to when it was taken, which puts the grid in the right week; a torn file yields no place and the library opens at the top. Reopening develop is the one thing that requires an exact match, because a canvas on a path that no longer resolves is a filename over an empty frame. The record lives in `dr-types` beside `Settings` and the store lives here beside `SettingsStore`, for the reason `dr-types`' manifest gives: a JSON serialiser in `core/` would be paid for by every crate there. Two files and two lifetimes, though -- resetting preferences must not forget where you were. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
DarkRoom
A cross-platform, non-destructive RAW photo editor for Linux and Android.
Status: 0.9.0, and no longer a spike. A library opens, culls, develops and exports on both platforms, across eight tagged releases. What is not built is written down rather than merely absent — see docs/outstanding.md for the requirements that have no implementation and why, and docs/technical-debt.md for the compromises that were chosen.
Documentation
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| CONTRIBUTING.md | How to land a first change without reading the rest |
| requirements.md | What the software must do — 179 numbered requirements |
| architecture.md | How it is built — crates, GPU pipeline, data model, sync |
| technical-debt.md | Compromises taken deliberately, each with the condition that retires it |
| outstanding.md | What is not built, and whether that is a decision or a gap |
| code-health.md | What a contribution costs, per seam, measured |
| traceability.md | Generated: which requirement is claimed by which file |
| faces.md | Face detection and identity — the models, the licence problem, and what S14 measured |
Building
Desktop:
cargo run -p darkroom-desktop
Android (containerised toolchain, see docker/android):
./docker/android/build.sh cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a build --release
Git LFS is required for the model weights, and the toolchain pins itself. CONTRIBUTING.md has the details and the four commands CI will run against what you send.
Current state
Working. A catalog over a local folder, a Nextcloud account, or a folder a
sync client keeps in virtual-files mode — where a placeholder is treated as the
photograph rather than as a one-byte file. A virtualised library grid with a
capture-time timeline, ratings, labels, keywords, collections and a trash that
survives a crash mid-operation. Card ingest. Face detection and identity, with
the index syncing between devices. A develop pipeline of fifteen declared
operations fused into a single compute dispatch, plus the neighbourhood
operations that cannot be — clarity, texture, capture sharpening, noise
reduction, lens correction, spectral film simulation. Crop, straighten, spot
removal, gradient and subject-segmentation masks, named presets, and a
generated panel that no operation in ui/ is allowed to name. Export to JPEG,
PNG and 8- or 16-bit TIFF with resize and output sharpening.
The zero-copy display path works on desktop. The compute pass writes a texture that Slint composites directly, which is what ARCH §6.1 requires; the readback it forbids costs 96% of frame time at 4K, and
cargo run -p dr-gpu --example bench --features readback
still reproduces that measurement. The one exception is the Android develop view, which reads the frame back through the CPU because zero-copy there needs wgpu's Vulkan swapchain, and that tears a portrait window on a tablet whose panel is mounted landscape. It is debt, not a revision of the rule: the reasoning, the on-device measurements that forced it, and the three separate things any one of which would remove it are in technical-debt.md TD-1.
Not built. Plugins, compare and survey culling, focus peaking, burst grouping, AI denoise, tiled and progressive rendering, and most of the Android platform integration beyond running. The performance targets in §4.1 are unverified rather than unmet — the per-commit benchmark suite §8 requires does not exist, so nothing fails a build on a regression. docs/outstanding.md is the list, with the reasoning.
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later.